Coffee, Country & Cody: May 7, 2024 - Ira Dean

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Both of us have had some espresso, so buckle up, everybody. It's going to be a fun ride. Welcome in, Coffee Country and Cody on WSM ORG for all of you watching and joining in right now on our streaming platforms. We look good today. We have on, like, some coordinating colors. Mine is like a tomato orange.You have on that sky blue. You've got your espresso in the jar.

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I was going to say, I get a daily fix from the Sutton household.

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It is espresso.

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Does Paul wonder what you're doing every morning?

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No, he said this morning he goes shot for Charlie PERSON. I said, yep, that's it.

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I think she's about hooked. Now it's going to be like $4 a jar starting next week.

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I'm going to start sending in my binmo pretty soon. I'm like, hey, you know, a little something, something. No, it is caffeine morning. We've got plenty of it. We are very spring-like today. I like it, hey, you know, a little something, something. No, it is caffeine morning.

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We've got plenty of it. We are very springlight today. I like it. Yeah, it feels good. Bill PERSON's taking

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the day off. We've got Annie Nye in the back, running everything. Aaron Cooper PERSON, taking some time off as well.

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And then, hey, there's Jeff Roberts. I see him in Master Control ORG. He just pushed the button. So now we're streaming. Peacock. Circle Now. You can also find us CircleCountry.com ORG is the easiest place. Yeah, and you can stream us live on their website too. Yep, absolutely.

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So make sure that you tune in because we look good today. We're also talking about all things coming up in entertainment headlines. So many bars that are downtown. One closed. One's opening. Who's going to be behind it all?We've got that coming up for you in just a little bit. Plus a brand new benefit that Miranda Lambert PERSON has signed on to do, how you can get tickets to watch her perform and help our furry friends in need. I feel like that is such a win-win. We've got that coming up. And in case you missed it, the first time around, Megan Barker PERSON, she came by to see us in the studio. We're going to encore that performance and her interview coming up in just a little bit.It's a good morning. We've got a lot of stuff to cover. So hang out with us. One question that I posed on social media yesterday, and I would love to pose it to everybody who is watching and listening this morning.

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Who is the artist and or band

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that you have seen live the most? Oh, that's easy for me.

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Is it?

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Because I'm a ticket stub person and I keep, and I'm an only child, so I keep track of these kind of things. Okay.

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14 times Mary Chapin Carpenter, 13 times Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ORG.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah.

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Okay, those are some good numbers.

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And then I think 11, Steve Earl PERSON. Okay.

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Yes.

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Steve Earl PERSON. I like Yes. Steve Earl.

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I like it.

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That is not what I expected. No, when I first, I was a little nervous interviewing him for the first time because I think

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he's like super, like genius. He's genius level. Sure, sure. So like you don't want to ask stupid questions. But I want him over immediately by saying, you know, you're a fan of someone when you can tell them all the places you've seen them that don't exist anymore.And I ran through this litany of that. He just started laughing. He goes, yep, gone, gone. Close that place down. Yep.

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So it was pretty fun.

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That's amazing.

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Well, let us know if you want to join in on the conversation.

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You can find me on Instagram, any of the socials on Facebook, be Kelly Sutton PERSON.

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So who have you seen the most live? Well, we're hanging out this morning talking about entertainment headlines. The first one that came across my desk was music for mutts. I mean, both of my favorite things altogether in one. Thank you, Miranda Lambert PERSON. She's going to be doing this at the Ascend Amphitheater FAC.It's the first one that she's done.

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So we're saying first ever or inaugural.

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But not first annual. Thank you,

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because there's no such thing. So music for Muts ORG, benefit concert. It's going to raise money for

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her Mutt Nation Foundation. She founded this back in 2009 with her mom Bev PERSON. It's going to be

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happening October the 5th, Nashville's Ascend Amphitheater. Miranda is headlining the concert. Don't know who else is on the lineup just yet, but you know it's going to be a lot of her friends. You're going to be hanging out. If you want tickets information, you can find it all on her website. They go on sale this Friday. She said, I'm just going to have an adoption event, lots of other activities, make it a big old party. I hope everyone will come out and party with us. So I think there might be dogs up for adoption on site. Oh, I know. That's the risk I run when I go to anything where there are dogs up for adoption. I just want to buy one and take one home.I'd take that one.

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I'll take that one.

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You know, that's how I got my dog.

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Wicked.

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Wicked. He was a pet of the week on the TV show.

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Oh, and you just kept him?

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Yeah. Oh.

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I actually had a day where Reese PERSON came to work with me. It was not bring your daughter to work day, but it was one of those days where I didn't have a choice.

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Something was like you. They were out of school. So she was with me that day, and we always do pets of the week. It was on Tuesdays, and our friend Kenneth from the National Humane Association ORG was there, and he brought this little puppy in, and he was so cute.

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And I was holding it. And then after the segment was over, I look over, and he was so cute and I was holding it and then after the segment was over I look over and he is handing the dog to my daughter who's standing behind the camera

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and she's holding him and looking at me like mom this puppy and we had just lost our two

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so it had been a year I was like we need to just give us give ourselves some time and at that point it was so funny I should go back and see if I still have the text. So I'm texting Paul PERSON. I think I'm going to get this dog. Are you watching? Have you seen this dog?I think I'm going to bring this dog home. Rase is in love with this dog.

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And there's no responses to any of these.

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We're on our way home.

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I'm driving to Nashville Humane ORG.

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Seriously, I'm here. Okay, they're putting the dog in the car. I'm coming home with this dog.

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You are not answering me, so this dog is now ours.

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I pull in.

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I would have seen his reaction reading the entire novel.

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It's like, okay.

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There was just no response.

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So I pull in to the house.

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He opens the garage door and is standing in the garage.

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And I open the door, and he jumps out and runs straight to Paul PERSON.

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And Paul PERSON just looks at me and I'm like, he loves you. And he's been with us ever since.

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So, yeah, I can get myself into trouble if I go somewhere with their dogs. So when did tickets on sale again?

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Friday.

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Friday, okay. I made the tent.

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Oh, same with the Roots and Boots show. Yes, the Roots and Boots Show EVENT. That's exactly right. Okay. Okay, so Miranda has aots and Boots show. Yes, the Roots and Boots Show EVENT. That's exactly right. Okay. Okay, so Miranda has a new song out called Ranglers WORK_OF_ART, and here's what she had to say about. Take a listen.

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Y'all, my new song, Ranglers WORK_OF_ART, is about getting revenge. The very best way you know how. Burning it down. She's in it all on fire, and if there's one thing that she learned,

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rainless and forever to burn. Okay, come on in here, kerosene. Come on in here. Gum powder and lead. Burning it down. Miranda's back.She's got something that's just perfect for her brand. Burn it down. It takes a long time for Wranglers PRODUCT to burn. I wore mine. I'm not going to burn mine anytime soon. Russell Dickerson has a complete opposite of that. This is a good day to have a great day. It's a song that he just released and he said, you know, it's just about being positive and feeling all the good vibes. I mean, going into summer, that is such a perfect song. And it's very funny. You need to look at some of the things that he posts on social media

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because there are some funny pictures that are going along with this. He's actually going to hit the road with Sam PERSON Hunt on Sam's locked-up tour. For a full list of dates, if you want to get tickets to go see that, it's easy to find. It's on Russell PERSON's website. Good day to have a great day.And last but not least, if you want to go see our friend Luke Bryan out on the farm, he's doing it again, the farm tour, 15th farm tour that he has hosted. So he finds some family farms and he sets up camp and basically does a big old field party out in the middle of nowhere and the money goes to help farmers in those different local places. He's got shows that are coming up in North Carolina GPE, Shelbyville, Kentucky, Miller's Port, Ohio, Smiths, and Pennsylvania GPE. This is all going to be inSeptember. He's going to have Connor Smith, Tucker Wetmore, and the Peach Pickers ORG, which is Red Aiken's, Dallas Davidson, and Ben Hayneslip PERSON with him on the bill. So get tickets because they do go fast. I have been to one of his farm tour stops, and let me tell you, it's really, really fun. Because it's a Luke Bryan show, but in an outdoor fun setting and not as many people. And it's just a really good time. And I appreciate the fact that the money goes to help the farmers.Hang with us, everybody. We've got more still to come right here on Coffee Country ORG. And Cody FAC, I see him. He's standing outside. We're going to let him in. It's Ira Dean PERSON.He's going to be in the studio with us coming up in just a few.

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More Coffee Country and Cody is on WSM ORG.

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I love catching up with somebody that I have not seen in a minute. And in I think probably five years it's been, Ira Dean PERSON.

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It is good to see you. Where have you been? I've been hiding. I'm in the artist protection program.

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Changed my name and liked us. You've been down in Florida GPE? Yeah, I've been in Florida. I got married

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in February. Well, congratulations. Thank you for first time. Really? Ever. Okay. Yeah. I think I had

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commitment issues. I think you may have. A little bit. Well, at least you realized that before you got married.

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Yeah.

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That's a good, because others are on their fourth or fifth by your time now.

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My friend's on number six.

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Yeah.

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You know what?

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Sometimes you got to wait for the right one.

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I did.

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I held out.

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Oh, good for you.

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First time we met, it was trick pony days.

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I'm thinking, gosh, it might have been at the wild horse,

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maybe.

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Wow.

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I know.

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That's a long time ago.

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I mean, what years are we talking like surca?

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We're talking like 96, 7?

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I remember Rebel ORG.

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Rebel, that's 96, 97.

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After I got fired from Tanya Tucker for the third time, we put.

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How did you get fired from Tanya Tucker PERSON?

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I used to be a mess.

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Okay.

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Well, that's a lot of people on Music Row FAC, honey.

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The band leader would fire me. She hired me right back. She thought it was funny. And so I stole.

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I was going to say you really had to do something to get fired by Tanya PERSON.

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I stole the limo, I think, in L.A.

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And took it for a five-hour spin and missed my flight out of there. And I had a great time on sunset. Ira PERSON. Yeah, I showed up, and the whole band had already flown out.

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And I pull up in a limo, and she's out front waiting for a limo. I'm like, hey, what's up? She goes, aren't you supposed to be on a plane?

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Oh, gosh.

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That's what I hear.

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Then I got the text. You're fired.

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And she says, no, you're not. Come on. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Well, we should have Tanya PERSON call in and tell the story.

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Tanya PERSON, you tell him I'm not fired.

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That's right.

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So that's when things started.

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How did you meet Heidi and Keith PERSON? How did that all come together?

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Galee PERSON, that's so long ago. Keith was playing for Joe Diffie PERSON at the time.

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He was Joe Diffy's PERSON bass player.

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I was Tanya Tucker's PERSON bass player. Yeah.

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And he came to me at Jamber in the Hills ORG. And I used to dress like Huggy Bear PERSON back in the day for y'all that don't know. And he's like, man, we need to form a group. I got this idea. And he was real cowboy looking.

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I'm dressed like this and you're like that.

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We find a chick singer.

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And I was like, this sounds like the village people to me.

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All he needs like a telephone repairman and an Indian.

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Perfect.

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Yeah.

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And I was like, nah, it ain't my bag. And then I got fired from Tanya PERSON. Again. Yeah. And I was like, hey, you still want to do this thing?

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Yeah.

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He's like, yeah. So then Heidi PERSON was, I actually knew Heidi from her ex-boyfriend at the time who was signed on curb and I used to play gigs with him.

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And then I guess Keith PERSON's ex-wife, at the time she wasn't an ex, they had a girl night and Heidi PERSON was at the party and played a demo and yada, yada, yada. The rest is history.

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I love how big dysfunctional families get together. This is awesome. That's the country music family in a nutshell.

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Oh, yeah. So-and-so's friends, ex-wife's cousin was playing. Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

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The mailman dropped off a demo. And I thought it sounded good.

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I was like, who's this chick? Yeah.

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But you've always been writing songs. You've always had a hand in music. We were just talking off camera. You really started loving music. How old were you when you fell?

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I was playing clubs when I was 12.

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Were you really?

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My dad, there was a talent contest at a bar. My mom and dad were divorced. And my dad came over in the middle of night and said, my mom's name was Gene. Gene, I got to take Ira PERSON for a little bit. She's like, where? There's a talent contest up at the bar. So I went up there and played it, and I won, and then I ended up getting a gig. And then I played music with my brother. My brother was actually the talented one. I just made people laugh. He was like, I wanted to grow up to be like my brother.He was amazing. And my mom said, as long as it didn't affect my schoolwork, so I was underage. So she had to walk me in the club, and I would do my homework at the table in between on breaks. And I was failing out like crazy until I realized I could invite my teachers to the bars and then get them hammered. And then that's what happened.I graduated a year early.

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I graduated as a junior and went on the road.

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Came back and did the cap and gown thing a year later.

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You grew up in Raleigh GPE, right?

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I grew up in Raleigh GPE. I was born in Raleigh, right? I grew up in Raleigh.

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I was born in Raleigh GPE.

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My dad got a job transfer up into Minneapolis GPE.

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Oh, wow. So I went to high school with all the Prince and the Revolution ORG's little brothers and sisters. Oh, wow. And so Des Dickerson, who was Prince's guitar player, had a 71 purple Cadillac PRODUCT, and he'd pull up, and they'd all be in the garb, the ruffled shirts of the whole bit, and they'd pick up their little brothers and sisters at our high school.And matter of fact, Des Dickerson PERSON lived on the same street as I did, and they would practice in the basement. And there was an old song called 777-931. That was Des his phone number. He had to change his phone number after that song came out. And my phone number, I can remember this.This is crazy. It was 7-7-5-783.

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But we'd walk down the street. I did a show with

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Des Dickerson, like a charity thing with Darius Rucker. And I was like, man, there was a guy in a

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purple Cadillac. And he's like, what high school? I said, North St. Paul GPE. And he's like, that's where I went. I was picking up my little sister. And I was like, man, y'all used to practice at this house. And he's like, yeah, that was my house. 7-7-933-11.

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Oh, gosh. That is too funny. Yeah. So, yeah.

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Then I went to college in Southern Illinois GPE, and I got thrown out of there. I was a jazz performance major. Went back to North Carolina GPE. I was a maintenance man, got electrocuted, and then I was like, okay, I moved in Nashville GPE.

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You got electrocuted? Yeah. Have you written a book yet?

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Nope.

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All right.

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That needs to happen. I can't remember much anymore because I got fried.

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Was it like serious?

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Serious like. Okay. It was almost drowned. I was working on a waterline underneath the hotel, Elizabethan Inn Hotel ORG. I don't even know if it's still standing. It's outside of Nagshead, North Carolina GPE.

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It's Amanda, North Carolina GPE on the beach.

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There was a water leak underneath. They had some little houses around there and I had to, my boss said, crawl under there and see what's wrong with the water lake. I went under there and it was full of water. And so I'm likeup to laying on my back with just my head hanging out. And something stung me in the rear and I thought I was a water mackus and I was on the walkie toky. I said, something bit me. He goes, nothing bitch, you just go in there.Well, I didn't know. It was the power line that was in there.

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And so as soon as I hit my wrench to the metal bottom of the tub to tighten up the thing, that was the ground it out.

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Boom, knocked me out. I went underwater. The boss had to climb out of there, pull me out. And then I came to and he's like, you got to go to the hospital. I was like, no, just put me in a, get me to my house so I can just sleep for a little bit. And I woke up and called my brother and said, let's get out of here. I don't want to work.

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Wow. Yeah. I want to play music. And we were, me and my brother were down there playing beach music and stuff, making good money.

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So we moved to Nashville with 300 bucks. Man, I love these stories. These are fantastic stories.

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There's a songwriter named Chris Wall

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and I was just telling them the story. I was like, I don't think I'd move. I look back on my life and like $300 and just pick up and move. I would never do that now.

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Matter of fact, my first job was in this hotel. It was.

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It was a barback and a bartender at the picking parlor right around the corner.

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And then I ended up playing music at there used to be a place called The Stage ORG. I don't know if it's still there right across at the picking parlor right around the corner and then I ended up playing music at there used to be a place called the stage I don't know if it's still there

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right across from the picking parlor wow and I played out there with some of the lone star guys

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that is too funny these are amazing stories yeah seems like a lifetime ago it probably is

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it really was well memory could probably drink by now let's jump to present day because there's a new song.

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We're going to play the video.

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We're going to play the song.

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Give us the title and all the backstory behind it.

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Missing how it used to be.

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It's a song I wrote with a buddy mine named Dave Turnbull PERSON.

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Love Dave.

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I love him to death.

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And my father passed in 07.

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My mom passed last year at March, March 14th, I believe. And me and Dave had to write

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shortly after that. And usually I write a bunch of uptempo stuff, rocking stuff. And I'll be

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honestly, I wish everybody had the relationship I had with my parents because they were awesome.

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We were great. And when my mom passed, it hit me hard. And me and Dave sat down and wrote this, you know.

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I had to get it out.

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I was missing her bad.

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And it just kind of all the memories growing up of, you know, we used to, you know, go ride the bikes and had to come home when the streetlights came on.

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I can still hear my mom yelling out the back door. Yeah. And just the, I grew up in a great time. It was a small town and it was awesome.

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Right. And then it just, all those little moments came back.

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So we wrote this and the label, I just signed a new deal and the label loved it. And they're like, would you mind if we release this on Mother's Day? And I was like, that's perfect because it's one day before my mom's birthday.

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Oh, that's so good.

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Is this your mom's voice? We'll hear at the beginning of the video. Yeah, my mom's in the video. She's wearing a sombrero. before my mom's birthday. Oh, that's so good. Is this your mom's voice?

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We'll hear at the beginning of the video.

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Yeah, my mom's in the video. She's wearing a sombrero. That was her last birthday. She passed away 10 months after that. Wow.

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And that's my dad playing guitar in it. And that's my wife at the end.

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And that's my daughter. That's my grandkids.

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Oh, this is so good.

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I know. I don't look like a grandpa. They got a hip grandpa.

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Yeah, they do. Yeah, they do. Yeah, they do. They're too young to know, but they don't know how good they got it.

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More coffee, country, and Cody FAC is on W.S. I know the radio show. Y'all read that stuff.

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I read.

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I don't know.

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I can't read.

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Yes, you can.

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No, I can.

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I'm dyslexic.

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It's horrible.

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I'd still be on the first line.

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We can't sing or play.

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So we balance each other out nicely.

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It is funny. Whenever we talk about somebody who is doing music and is a songwriter or an artist and all of a sudden they're hosting something, I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, stay in your lane.

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Yeah. Stay in your lane. I'm looking at you, Lindsay L.

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Because they come after our spots and I'm like, you don't see me putting out an album.

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Yeah, I agree.

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But maybe, maybe one day we're working on something.

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We do have a duets project.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah, because let's dive into that.

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Let's dive into that.

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Okay. Because ACMs are right around the corner.

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Sure.

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And we won the ACM in two.

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I got an ACM from 2003. I'm getting ancient.

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No, you're not.

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Yeah, I am.

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You just hit your stride.

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I know. I'm in my prime people.

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Yeah, you are. But I can't read out loud.

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And so we go, and this happened a lot. So we go the day before and you're supposed to read the cue cards. And they always write the stupidest jokes. Of course. And they're horrible. And I'd get through that.You know who did most of those jokes?

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Who? Jerry House PERSON.

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Jerry House PERSON was writing most of those jokes.

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I hope he's not listening.

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I don't think I knew that.

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Oh, that's really good. Oh, yeah. House ORG used to help with all of the, especially the's not listening. I don't think I knew that. Oh, that's really good.

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House ORG used to help with all of the, especially the monologues.

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I don't know so much about the rest of the show.

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I'm sure Jerry Houses ORG were great, but the ones they gave me were horrible.

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Sure. And so I would choke my way through it. And then I would tell Heidi when we left, she knew after the first time, but I'd say, I'm going to tap you when you come in. I got the gist of it, and I'll just make it up.

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And so that's what we did.

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Every time we were on the war, I tap her when it's time to come in. And Dick Clark PERSON would get so mad. He put a red light out there to flash at me. And he goes, why can't you just read the cue cards? I said, I'm dyslexic. You didn't find him rehearsals.He had a Pittsburgh GPE accent off TV, but on TV, never knew it.

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That's hilarious. He's like, you're going to read the cue cards tonight? I was like, yeah, I'll TV, but on TV, never knew it. That's hilarious.

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He's like, you're going to read the Q cards tonight? And it's like, yeah, I'll do it. And then I just make

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it up. Reba laughed. She's like, oh God, one day we're going to host this thing together.

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She's hosting again. Solo, 17th time she's doing it. Jeez. Isn't that crazy? I love her.

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I do too. We were talking off camera about how close you were with the cash family.

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Yeah. With Johnny and June PERSON. How did you meet them? How did that happen? I moved here in 1990 and I was underage and I got a gig at the Belko Club in Hendersonville GPE.

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For 30 bucks a night and all the beer I could drink. And it was awesome. They're closed now. I can tell on them. Statute of limitations. They can't lose their liquor license now.

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And I got a, had a band there. Well, I did a solo thing. And then this redheaded kid about my age came in. And we put a band together and it was John Carter Cash PERSON. Really? Yeah.And he knew I was broke. As a joke, I was paying $200 a month for a couch. I was driving a Chvette PRODUCT with no floorboard in it. And in the wintertime here, it'd get freezing.

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And it had no heat. So I'd take a milk jug and fill it up with water and put it in the microwave and stick it in my lap and drive where I needed to go. I was that broke.

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I was broke as a joke.

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And he said, man, you know,

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he was one of, I was getting ready to beg for my job back in North Carolina GPE. And he said, you need to stick around. And I invited me over for lunch, and I never left. And then me and John and June PERSON just became tight. We were tight.

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And me and John PERSON, I got to open up shows for John.

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I got to sing on our one of two songs.

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I'd sing backgrounds with the Carter family when I was 19, I think. He was, I was in the studio. I was stealing the catering from the studio. He knew me by then, this time, because I've been staying at his house.

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And he came out, and I had a tuna fish sandwich with a crust cut off and a chicken wing.

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And I got embarrassed because he caught me.

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And so he started talking out of nervous energy. I said, well, when are we going to record together? When are we going to write a song or something?

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He goes, well, how about no? And he picked me up by my arms, walk me in, and there's the Carter PERSON family at the microphone doing backgrounds.

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And he moved Anita and June PERSON aside. And he put me in there. I was holding a sandwich and a chicken wing.

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He said, June PERSON, show I were his parts.

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I sang on the remake of Put It in God's Hands WORK_OF_ART and another song called Don't No, the remake of Don't Take Your Guns to Town and then a new song called Put It in God's Hands.

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Wow.

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That was a 91.

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How amazing is that?

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Yeah, it was awesome.

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That's very cool.

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And then he was just, he pitched my songs even when they were horrible.

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I remember calling Alan Jackson PERSON at his house to send a song of mine over. And now looking back, that song was so bad.

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Oh.

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It was terrible, but I just got to spend some Christmases with them in Jamaica up in Cinnamon Hill at Johnny and June PERSON's place.

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And that's where I ended up getting married. That's so cool.

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The only place I ever saw unconditional love, those two loved each other.

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Yeah.

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And I need all the help.

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I told my wife, she goes, where do you want to get married? And I said, I know our unconditional love lives. and i need all the help i get i told my wife she goes where you want to get married i said i know our unconditional love lives and we need we need we need all the help we can get let's let's let's get married there that's so cool that's amazing i know you've been through a lot

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we've known each other for a long time there's been some ups and down there were some demons yeah

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at what point did you say okay enough is enough i? I'm putting all of that beside.

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It's going to the wayside.

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I said it a hundred times. I tried. I tried and I tried.

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I know. My dad suddenly passed November 7 of 07 on BMI night.

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Oh, wow. And he made me go to the BMI's because I was getting an award for Gary Allen's PERSON a feeling like that. I wrote that. And I came back home. I bought him the house across the street from mine. So we'd always like that. I wrote that and I came back home. I bought him the house across the street from mine. So we'd always be close. I love that. I love that man. And I, you know, I found him, passed away the next morning. I was going to go show him my award.And I, you know, I imploded. I imploded. I was sober at the time, somewhat. And I kind of climbed in a whiskey bottle for a few years, and that's when I said enough's enough.

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I just, I hit bottom. I didn't want to be me no more. Right.

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Mm-hmm. Of all people that helped me, it was Eddie Montgomery PERSON that got me out of there and start

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writing.

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He's like, get out here to Kentucky GPE and just get away.

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And that's kind of what started. Me and him tied one on a lot out there. And that's kind of what started. Me and him tied one on a lot out there. And then when I left his place, I just I was done. I just couldn't do it

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no more. Yeah. You know what? The thing is, the reoccurring theme is how many people love you and how many people pour into you and how many people believe in you.

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You have these collaborations, man. It's a humbling experience because I thought, you know, I let a lot of people down in this town when I relapsed and relapse and relapse, you know. I was on the wagon or under the wheels all my whole life. And when I got ready to make this record, when I got called by Noah Gordon PERSON to make a record, it all started from, I played, I was Gordon PERSON to make a record.It all started from, I played, I was writing with Ronnie Dunn PERSON. I played him the song I had cut with Vince Gill and John Osborne from Brother Osborne WORK_OF_ART. And he's like, why didn't you ask me to sing on this? I was like, because you're busy. And he goes, no, I want the second person second chorus. And I was like, okay, so he sang that. And then me and Gary Allen PERSON were writing, and we wrote this great song.And I was like, man, I want to cut this for my record. You want to sing it with me? He's like, yeah. And they just kept evolving. And I called Uncle Cracker PRODUCT. And he's like, yeah, and I called Gretchen Wilson PERSON.And she's like, of course. And it just kept evolving. It called Ted Nugent PERSON. I was like, I wrote this song. I'd love you to put a solo on it. Well, come down to Waco GPE.Let's do it.

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And David Lee Murphy, who me and David have known each other since 2000. Waylon PERSON introduced me

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and David PERSON, believe it or not. Who else is on that? I mean, there's so many people on this thing.

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Yeah. And I'm so proud of it. Finally, I made a record that I'm proud of. It's taken me a long time.

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You know, I've been in town since 90. Yeah.

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It's taken a long time for me to actually,

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we were talking about this earlier. Every place, after Trick Pony ORG broke up,

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I'd get a record deal,

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and then the record label would close. I was like, I'd close them down.

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Yeah.

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It's like, if you want to, you want to end your label, sign me. And so I told Noah PERSON that before he signed me. I was like, Noah PERSON, you know, I got a long history of closing record labels down.

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And it's a great record.

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And I'm in a way better place. And I just got married and I got a beautiful, beautiful supporting wife.

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And my first time ever being married and I wish I would have met her.

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No, she wouldn't have nothing to do with me back.

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Timing is everything.

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Yeah, but it's humbling.

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It's been a humble experience making this record and making it with my friends.

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And the support and love I've gotten out of this down, a lot of it I didn't deserve as many times I let people down.

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But it's been years and years and years and years now that my horns haven't grown.

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So I'm happy.

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Oh, that's so good. So album's going to be coming out in a couple months.

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How can people keep up with you? Where can they find you? What's the easiest way?

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I'm on all the social media stuff, Instagram ORG. Look for the little blue dot because of all the things, people impersonate me. I'm like, if you're going to impersonate somebody. I know, I know, right?

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I go after Luke Combs PERSON or somebody. I was like, why me?

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And so I redeemed bass, I think is on Instagram ORG.

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Yeah, I was going to say, I think you're based on Instagram. There's Iridine PERSON Facebook fan thing.

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You can jump on there. And I'll be out writing and playing and doing shows and all that stuff.

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I think I'm going out with Brooks and Dunn on their tour to just write with Ronnie PERSON.

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Oh, that's fun. And then I think we're doing a not me in Brooks and Dunn PERSON, but there's a tour coming up.

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They're trying to book me for a fall tour on this other thing. So to support the album.

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That's so good. We're going to throw it back, though. We're going to do nothing to do around here, right?

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Is this one? You talk about some famous friends on this one.

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Yeah, it was Ronnie Millsap, Leroye, Montgomery Gentry PERSON.

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Who else is on this?

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Cole Ford PERSON's on there.

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Jeffrey Steele PERSON?

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Jeffrey Steele PERSON.

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Me and Jeff PERSON wrote this. And I always had a dream of, I wanted to do a band like the Travelling Willberries ORG, but a country where we all played on stuff.

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And this was my, it was me, Lerrae Parnell, and Ronnie Millsap PERSON.

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I was like, okay, that's a good band so far. And then this is kind of, and then it went off the tracks. And I was like, I just started calling everybody. Let's all just make a party out of it. And so Eddie and T. Roy PERSON came in and same, you know.

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So, you know, it's hard to believe T. Roy PERSON's gone now.

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But at least we had this great, we had a lot of great moments,

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but one that, you know, everybody can be part of and listen to, if I ever croak.

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Let's talk about everything that's going down in entertainment headlines.

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It is a marathon of bars here.

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Now, if you are keeping track at home, and I don't know that you are, but we have currently

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Old Red, that's Blake Shelton, Whiskey Row, that's Dirk's Bentley, Luke's 32 Bridgebar ORG,

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that is Luke Brian PERSON.

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We are about to have Luke Combs, who will be opening category 10.

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I think that's happening later this year. Who else do we have? We have AJ's Good Time Bar, so it's Alan Jackson PERSON.

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He's still got his place there. Did you get Redneck Riviera ORG?

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Redneck Riviera is in there, John Rich.

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Yeah. We have Casarosa PERSON. You said Chiefs ORG? Chiefs ORG. Yes. Casa Rosa is Miranda.Chiefs is Eric Church PERSON. Am I missing? It's crazy. You got Garth PERSON, right?

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Oh, Garth PERSON. Oh, please don't tell you. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. Garth PERSON is there. And then we had FGL house.

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Right.

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But now we're down. Right. Because we had FGL.

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We had FGL. We had no FGL. We don't have no FGL. We don't have no FGL house. It actually closed randomly last week, which I didn't even know, was happening. But now the new Scuttle Butt is Lainey Wilson might be taking over what was formerly known as FGL House. It's located on 3rd Avenue. It was opened back in 2017.

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I do remember it was kind of one of the first outside of, you know, what was the major bars.

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It was one of the first ones, FGL House ORG.

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2017, it opened.

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It has closed. And now people are saying that Lainey Wilson PERSON will be in talks with T.C. Group, T.C. Restaurant Group

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to have it bear her name.

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If that happens, she'll be the second female to have a freestanding establishment. Third, overall, if you count Tanya Tucker, because she's doing a pop-up bar that's inside Nudis called Tanya Tucker's Tequila Cantina ORG. So, and I've been watching people online, they said, you know, what about Tootsies ORG? And I'm like, well, Tootseys ORG is actually owned by a man. Steve PERSON.

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Yes. It's not owned by Tootsy ORG. Layla's ORG, maybe, which I don't know if Layla's is actually owned by a female or if it's again one of those.

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But yeah, it'll be very interesting to see if that happens. Morgan Wallin, on the other hand, does have an opening date already for his bar. That one is going to be called this bar. Not to be confused with that bar or the other bar, which honestly, if that doesn't happen, it's such a missed opportunity.

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It's going to be opening 4th Avenue

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just behind the Ryman ORG. So if you walk the alleyway in between the Ryman and the honky tonks and you come to the end of the alleyway at 4th Avenue FAC, that corner, that's where he's

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going to be. Where there used to be like eight parking spaces. Right. It's not a big,

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you can go high, but it's not, yes, exactly. Going to be a tall and skinny. And not to be out done, Old Dominion ORG has their place opening as well. That's coming up later. They shared some

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pictures. Still looks like it's going to be a while because it's framed. But it's ODI ORG's O-D-I-E-S. So got a lot of bars to hang out in if you're coming to Nashville GPE. Stay with us. We've got more. We'll run down the list of who's playing at the Grand Alopery tonight when we come back on Coffee Country and Cody FAC.

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4-25-4400. Thank you for hanging out with this this morning.

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Again, thank you to Megan Barker PERSON. We encoreed her in studio with this. Our friend Ira Dean PERSON stopped by. Love seeing him, new music, all the good things happening for him. And I'll be catching up with him down in Texas for the ACM ORG.

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Boy, he can, he's got stories to tell, and he can tell a story.

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I love hearing his stories. He he's got stories to tell and he can tell a story. I love hearing his stories. He's got amazing stories to tell. If you're going to be hanging out with us tonight at the Grand Ole Opry FAC, we got a lineup for you that's pretty spectacular. Writers in the Sky, Frank Ray, Craig Morgan PERSON's going to be there, Charlie McCoy, Ashley McBride, Henry Cho PERSON, and Lady A.And we will see you back here tomorrow morning. Have a good one, everybody. Good. Thank you back here tomorrow morning. Have a good one, everybody. Good.

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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

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